Woman&#39;s garter



Dec. 23, 1947. OO 2,433,262

WOMAN S GARTER Filed April 22, 1947 FLORENCE [pa Coolf,

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Patented Dec. 23, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,433,262 WOMANS Gamma .Florence Ida Cook, Seattle, Wash.

Application April 22, 1947, Serial No. 743,087

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to womens garters.

Heretofore, so far as I am aware, in the manufacture of womens garters no adequate provision has been made to prevent the action of the muscles of the leg from imparting a spiral movement to the stocking, with the result that, instead of the seam along the back side of the stocking being maintained in a truly vertical, tidy and tasty position, said seam usually becomes deflected throughout its upper portion thus detracting from the personal appearance of the wearer of the stocking.

It is an object of the present invention more advantageously to position the hose supporting fixtures on the separate band runs, normally nonslidably connected to each other, which embrace the legs at different places, so that the movement of the muscles of the leg does not cause any unsightly lateral deflection of the seam oi the supported stocking.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garter which will aid in locating the correct wearing position of the seam of th stocking.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a garter which when applied in the operative position will afford greater comfort to the wearer, and which will be capable of yielding in such a manner as not to place a double strain on the hose during the adductive and abductive movement of the lower limbs, which strain, when present impairs the longevity of the hose.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention will hereinafter appear.

Referring to the drawing, wherein is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention as now reduced to practice and proven to be a worthwhile article,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a womans garter constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the garter shown operatively related to a stocking upon the leg.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Referring in detail to the drawing the device therein shown comprises two similarly constructed outer and inner closed band runs 3 and 4 for encompassing the thigh portion of the leg of the wearer, portions of which bands are normally non-slidably connected to each other in an abuttable parallel relation by a posterior slide fixture 5. Included in the band 3 is a hexagonally shaped ring 6 and included in the band 4 is a the band 3 is shorter than the run 9 thereof, and the run Ill of the band 4 is likewise shorter than :the run I I of the latter band, said runs 8 and I0 being preferably the same in length and runs 9 and II being preferably the same in length.

The end portion I2 of the run 8 is adjustably connected to one of the upper diagonal sides of the ring 6 through the medium of the side slide fastener I3, and the end portion I4 of the run 9 is adjustably connected to the other upper diagonalside of th same ring through the me dium of-the side slide fixture I5.

Similarly the end portion ll of the run In is adjustably connected to one of the upper diagonal sides of the ring I through the medium of the side slide fixture I8 and the end portion IQ of the run I I is adjustably connected to the other upper diagonal side of the ring I through the medium of the side slide fixture 20.

Around each lower horizontal side of the rings 6 and I is looped a tapeor elastic 2| from which downwardly depend the conventional hose supporter fixtures 22.

It will be observed that when the aforesaid garter band runs are applied to the thigh of the wearer with the posterior slide fixture 5 placed centrally of the leg vertically above the hose seam 23 as shown in Fig. 2, that the uneven lengths of the runs 8 and 9, and I0 and II position the rings 6 and 1 in such a relation to the limb 24 that the hose supporters '22 will occupy medial and outer positions on the thigh so that when an adductive movement of the limbs takes place the medial muscles of the thigh act only on one set of supporters while an abductive movement of the limbs cause the outer muscles of the thigh to act only on the other set of supporters.

It will thus be seen that there is no simultaneous movement of the individual hose supporters on each leg when a flexing of the muscles is made in either one of opposite directions. Hence there is no tendency to displace the location of the 1 posterior slide fixture or cause a spiral movement similar hexagonally shaped ring I. The run 8 of of the hose on the leg to allow the hose seam 23 to assume a distasteful lateral deflection.

In assembling the device the two band runs 3 and 4 are threaded through the posterior slide fixture 5 in the manner shown in Fig. 1, with the long run 9 of the band 3 extending to the left and the short run 8 extending to the right, and with the long run II of the band 4 extending to the right and the short run I0 extending to the left.

The side slide adjustment fixtures I3, I5, I8 and 20 are then placed on the respective end portions I2, I4, I1 and I9 of the runs 8, 9, I0 and II, and such end portions are then run through the appropriate rings 6 and 1 and back through the side slide fixtures, whence the nds are turned inside and bar tacked or braded on at 25 as shown in Fig. 3, the section taken on line 33 of Fig. 1 being typical of any section taken through a similar side slide fixture adjacent either ring 6 or 1. Since the side slide fixtures 1'8 and 20 are of a conventional character and the fact that the posterior slide fixture is similar to the side slide fixtures l8 and 20 the construction and function of all the slide fixtures will be known.

I claim:

1. A garter comprising two similarly constructed outer and inner closed band runs for encompassing the leg of the wearer, a posterior slide fixture normally non-slidably connecting portions of said bands to each other, a hexagonally shaped ring included in each of said outer and inner closed band runs; end portions of each run of the outer closed band. being adjustably connected to the opposed upper diagonal sides of one of said rings, and end portions of each run of the inner close-d band being adjustably connected to the opposed upper diagonal sides of the other of said rings; said posterior slide fixture uniting said inner and outer closed bands in the assembled condition in such a position that said rings are each connected to said posterior fixture in a spaced apart relation thereto, there being, in relation to said posterior fixture, on each side of the applied garter as a result of this positioning, a short run of one band connected with an upper diagonal side of one of said rings, and a long length run of the same band connected to the other upper diagonal side of the same ring, the long and short runs of the other of said bands being connected in the reverse manner to the other of said rings, and a, hose supporter fixture downwardly depending from each lower horizontal side of each of said rings.

2. A garter comprising two similarly constructed outer and inner closed band runs for encompassing the leg of the wearer, a posterior slide fixture normally non-slidably connecting portions of said bands to each other, a ring included in each said outer and inner closed band runs; end portions of each run of the outer closed band being adjustably connected to one of said rings, and end portions of each run of the inner closed band being adjustably connected to the other of said rings; said posterior slide fixture uniting said inner and outer closed bands in the assembled condition in such a position that said rings are each connected to said posterior fixture in a spaced apart relation thereto, there being, in relation to said posterior fixture, on each side of the applied garter as a result of this positioning, a short run of one band connected with one of said rings, and a long length run of the same band connected to the same ring, the long and short runs of the other of said bands being connected in the reverse manner to the other of said rings, and a hose supporter fixture depending downwardly from each of said rings.

FLORENCE IDA COOK.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 244,776 Wales July 26, 1881 697,504 Littlefield Apr. 15, 1902 1,252,987 Armstrong Jan. 8, 1918 1,308,774 Cowling July 8, 1919 1,813,453 Kinser July 7, 1931 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 444,662 France Oct, 23, 1912 

